daydream believer

I think I've been putting this post off  for a while basically because I haven't really had anything to say. It's been happening a lot more than usual this month and I don't really know why, but I will try to speak, for you.

I redecorated part of my wall with some new stuff from Flower, and I probably need to start using an actual camera rather than my phone.

The light switch says 'lumos' and 'nox' which is sort of tumblr-y and cliché but what can I say, they don't call me a potterhead for nothing! (Which also brings me to the point that my french teacher is also obsessive and we just talk about magic when we should be writing drafts for controlled assessments and stuff.) (Which also leads me to the point that another french teacher was actually IN Harry Potter and The Order Of The Phoenix as an extra ugh.) (Which also leads me to the point that I am totally not ready to kill because she got to meet the wonderful Helena.) (...) 

There are a few patches on there from when I used to go to Scouts to give a Moonrise Kingdom sort of vibe as well.

Jasper, who I've nicknamed 'smelly' for obvious reasons, is finally here and he is such a handful, he chews everything and then just runs mad around the house biting and stuff, it's so strange having a dog. I'd post a video of him going totes cray but I literally just deleted it by accident. Totes cray. Cray cray.

I walked through the woods on the way home from school the other day to take pictures because there was still a bit of snow and they looked kind of creepy and deserted. (it was freezing and I kept having visions of Slenderman.)

Can you tell I was shivering with the blurry-ness, I am still trying to convince myself that it was a purposeful artistic effect.

My obsession with Hugh Jackman is growing at an alarming rate even for me, and I want to be good at drawing too so I did Jean Valjean but his eye was too big. 

That's all I can say and I won't be posting next week, I'm going to France with school and staying with another family, wish me luck :(

such fun. xxx

P.S. THE LES MISERABLES SOUNDTRACK IS PERFECT DON'T CALL ME SAD BUT I GOT ALL 61 SONGS FROM YOUTUBE

IT TOOK AN ABSOLUTE AGE

BUT I'M HAPPY

ALSO HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

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he said i was gonna be in pitchers

YES we've done our last exam on Of Mice and Men, celebratory flower post and P  A  R  T  Y

and basically my dad got me some bright pink trainers for school today and they are  a w f u l  so I'm going to pay homage to them with MORE PINK woo

I feel like watching Heathers again

Flower's beautiful wall of crowns



Oliver James

because it makes me laugh



and a wild Helena in Fight Club because of the obsession with the queen of cool.

I hope you have a great February, Jemima ❤xxxxxxxxxx❤

 *all from tumblr.

beatles land

Hello everyone, I just got back from Beatles Land.

I have a feeling this post isn't going to be much but I've given myself a resolution to try and blog at least twice a month because at the moment I'm posting really randomly and sporadically which is making me feel kind of weird. But anyway it was great, we (my uncle included) stayed with our friend Kevin and his partner Michael and wow they have the most amazing apartment ever it's so minimalist and fashionable. We all went shopping and walked and I wish I'd thought to take pictures... We walked down the street where the (Robert D. Jr) Sherlock Holmes films were shot!!!! And it's really beautiful with all the old cobblestone streets and houses and lamp posts and everything. It was rainy so not many people were out, and I felt like I was in a scene from Mary Poppins. I didn't get to take any pictures but I found one of Canning street:

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The only thing with Liverpool is its history with the slave trade and everything, though. We came a few years ago and visited the Slavery museum, has anyone been? It's good but ever since then I've had this thing with that ku klux klan and I know they don't exist any more but omg they are terrifying things - I have this recurring dream where there's me stuck in the dark and I can't move, and this group of people in white cloths chanting and waving torches and stuff just walking slowly towards me and ew it's horrible, you might not like it but I want to show you:

Do you see what I mean?!?!?! They're like ghosts and the stuff of nightmares forever and they make me want to cry. Loads of people know about this fear thing at school and I remember for a history thing in year 8 my little group had to do a presentation to the whole class on the KKK and I was almost on my knees and basically crying and begging the teacher to let me be in another group.

ew, shivers.

But I will talk about something else now. Les Misérables and Hugh Jackman are new obsessions of mine to add to the list, and I have been photoshopping like mad, trying to fit in with the cool fandom-tumblrs (but let's face it, my attempts are pathetic), so here are the tingz I have made so far:

rubbish but I kind of like them.

It might sound weird but I've started taking notes when I watch films sometimes to pick up techniques and whatnot, for example in The King's Speech there's this thirty second scene with Lionel and Myrtle and I kind of wrote a whole page of notes on it which might mean something if I knew anyone who would actually want to be in one of my films but. That's okay isn't it?

I received this package from Flower the other day which is the most lovely pretty thing anyone has ever sent me ever, and everything is just so nice and cute and aw. Thank you so much Flower, it's the best!

I've also really got into Grimes recently and Oblivion is my favourite song at the moment so here's her super rad voice:

ugh she's so cool.

And there hasn't been much progress on the zine by the way, my imagination lasts for about an hour at the most...

And I want there to be another Rookie meet up in England because I didn't get to go to the last one :(

I'm really sorry about the KKK part it was uncalled for and inappropriate but I felt like I had to share it otherwise I might have exploded! Maybe I'll delete this post because of my general loser-ness.

And I'm sorry for it being a bit all over the place, I'm not really sure what I'm feeling right now and I'm confused and someone please explain D:

But I shall love you and leave you, as I am about to watch Australia. I hope you don't have a hard day's night and bye, mate.

spellbound

Hello to you and thanks for joining this is exciting isn't it! (I've been watching series 1 and 2 of Miranda on a loop ever since I got it for my birthday last month. Can you tell?)

This post has been a long time in coming because to tell you the truth, I just haven't been bothered had time. It's exam week (apparently for everyone) and the past week has been spent with my parents forcing me to 'revise' when I'm really just drawing and writing stuff that has nothing to do with school. I'm totally going to fail, aren't I.

On the bright side though I started a zine on tuesday in one of our revision periods. It was a sort of spur of the moment thing, I've never been imaginative enough to write one before but I drew a pentacle which turned into a playlist which I took home and decorated a tiny bit. Then I thought ZINE! (they're harder to draw than they look, wow) And it's my first one so I don't know how it'll turn out. But again we're back to school and I'm SO TIRED. I keep falling asleep and the only thing getting me through this week is the fact that I'm seeing Les Miserables (omg) tomorrow which I'm already obsessed with. I begged my parents to book the tickets before christmas and wow they actually did I'm so excited.

1. Future Legend - David Bowie

2. Main Title - Edward Scissorhands Soundtrack

3. Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana

4. Leave it Open - Kate Bush

5. Northern Star - Hole

6. California Dreamin' - Mamas and Papas

7. The Tears - Robots in Disguise

8. Desperado - Alice Cooper

9. Forget - Lianne La Havas

10. Season of The Witch - Donovan

11. Waking The Witch - Kate Bush

12. Hugo's Father - Hugo Soundtrack

Or youtube it here.

There are weird ones (1, 4, 11) rock-y ones (3, 5, 8) soundtracks (2, 12) and guitar-y ones (6, 9, 10) and I tried to mix them up so it's not too bad, but I don't know what goes well really. The whole zine's on lined paper for the back-to-school-ness that's going on now ew.

My new Rookie yearbook is great and I've been reading it and looking at the wonderful photo shoots for inspiration and such over the past few weeks. (Petra Collins sure has skillz.) It's so cool and sparkly and pretty and cute aw. I started a diary on new year's day and I really want to keep it going, which is going to be tough because I move on from things really easily because I've got no real sense of determination which I want to fix. (new year's resolution maybe?)

Sorry about all these brackets I can't handle writing any other way.

My 50s ice skates arrived shortly before christmas from ebay, and I'm still trying to work out why I bought them because I stopped skating properly about four years ago. Still, I have fixed the blades on properly because they were just so wobbly and definitely not good to skate in, and I'm thinking I might even start going again like I used to because it's still winter and I'm still allowed to be sparkly winter wonderlandy ok. It's suddenly gone freezing hasn't it? o_o

This is what I wore the other day which isn't one of my nicest outfits but I thought I'd take a picture anyway. And I cut off my face for you.

Budgie collar shirt from ebay, skirt and jumper thrifted. These rubbish outfit photos will hopefully get better, I'm getting a new camera soon (I hope).

And guess what we have big news, we're getting a dog on the 1st of february!!!!!! We're calling him Jasper look how cute he is he's only five weeks old.

This is his dad Jack who is beautiful, and I didn't get a good photo of Lucy (mum).

Also I'm officially fifteen as of the 28th of December, and I feel exactly the same, how outrageous.

And year ten hasn't been the bees knees either, exams here, homework there, it's just constant work work work and there's no time do do stuff I like. uggggh teen life

I'll finish now on these pictures because tiredness, I'm sorry. But nevertheless have a good... um life I suppose and I'll be back soon.

there's a bowie poster there's a bowie poster omg

Drawing/painting of Flower I made her for christmas which you may or may not have seen on her blog, new background, Carolyn's room from Dark Shadows (ideal bedroom) and someone's record collection (ideal record collection) I found on tumblr.

Jemima ❤xxxxxxxxxx❤

songs

So my dad is sort of a singer/songwriter, (and no man this isn't for him he hasn't asked me to do it) and I just thought I'd show you some of his stuff because maybe you're interested. He's done a lot of work with this DJ guy Bob Sinclar who isn't my cup of tea and also seems to take all the credit for it which is a bit unfair really. Anyway if it's not for you please give it a look anyway because it's not really my kind of music either, but he's super in love with all music and that and well his lyrics are in fact really meaningful and personal.

this was filmed in morocco i think

my dad's (steve edwards) (old) music videos

World Hold On

I'm in this one somewhere I was about 10 and I had an afro

this isn't with Bob guy this is with his band Lords Of Flatbush who I like more. I'm in this one as well for like a second and it was all filmed in da city centre. its all about how us young'uns get blamed for everything and these two old people are trying to put the blame on them specifically.

Okay it's short but wanted you to know I still exist, I'm off to play piano now and thanks for watching these if you did, have a lovely new year!

Jemima ❤xxxxxxxxxx❤

Honey, Honey

Hello again... I've not been around I know and, well, so much for blogging often I suppose.

(I'm still new okay I'm not some loser who does nothing all day)

Christmas is a-coming and I still have no clue what I'm going to do over three weeks of holiday. I think we're meant to be revising for our January exams (yay) but I think everyone knows I'll not be doing any of that due to the biggest amount of procrastination the human brain can possibly manage, which in my case is a lot. I've sort of lost my creativity/inspiration/originality/imagination/everything I dream of owning since a long long long while back, and this explains why I haven't posted anything good, made anything or written etc. Hopefully it'll come back soon and maybe early in the new year when all the 'starting afresh' vibes are still flying around. I'm really horribly lazy when it comes to making stuff, for example I told someone that I would make them a  present for Christmas and I haven't gotten round to it yet which makes me feel really bad. But now I think about it I have this week off school to finish it so I'll probably do this tomorrow. (SORRY)

Today was non uniform for the last day of school, and I didn't take a picture of my whole outfit but here's my totally gorgeous face nevertheless. We only found this out yesterday which was kind of annoying because I like to sort of plan mufti day clothes a couple of days in advance, which I know is probably weird because it's just like any other day but I don't know people seem to just expect me to look a little out-there so I guess I need to put a tiny bit of effort into it. ('effort'? what is this sorcery?) Then again I'm sure I'm not the only one because normally on mufti days people are like "omg gurl what u wearin 4 non uni????" like a whole week before it.

so yeah serial killer with a cold:

I wore a yellow 70s shirt that I got from ebay for a fiver underneath a black paisley pinafore dress that has a lace frill on the front, as well as my old flower crown that's now falling to pieces.

I've been listening to the Edward Scissorhands soundtrack (woo Danny Elfman) nonstop all month, partly because it's so so beautiful and makes me cry, and partly because it's SNOWING outside. Like, real actual cold snow! I love that film with all of my heart, it's such a lovely and sad story at the same time and wow Tim Burton/Johnny Depp films are always amazing, to be honest. Listen to the main Title or The Ice Dance first to get a chilling Christmassy feel for it all and then the rest of it, it's all awesome.

I'll finish off with some screencaps and artwork because I think we should all just appreciate the perfection and genius that is the imagination of Tim Burton.

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fonts

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Big Fish (2003)

Perfect film really, so Burtonesque but much less... gothic and twisted (even though I love the twisted) and is it just me fellow Burton fans or do I detect a hint of Wes Anderson in there? It's one of my favourites of his. (And where would we be without a beautiful shot of Helena Bonham Carter in the same film)

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The ever-amazing Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992)

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Helena as Dr. Hoffman in Dark Shadows

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Stainboy is my favourite Tim Burton character drawing. He's so cute and anybody who has read Tim's book The Melancholy Death Of Oyster Boy will probably understand. It's a beautiful book and the short stories and poems inside are really powerful and it's weird, it's as if you're the characters.

Okay and slightly out of the blue here's a great song by Best Coast that you've probably already heard, but either way it's a good tune.

Also it's my birthday in 10 days (28th) and imma be 15 years of age. I only just realised yesterday and woah I can't believe I forgot zomg

Anyway I'll go now and thank you for reading if you are, yo.

Only a lad

This week has gone so quickly I don't know what to do with myself right now. You know when you get those weird weeks where you think it's thursday and it's actually monday? I've had that for the past two weeks, and I think the monday just gone is the first one ever where I haven't wanted to fall asleep standing up in the middle of the car park. So I guess it isn't a bad thing when you think about it, because the worst feeling ever is when you're in a lesson and your eyes are just constantly closing. Christmas is coming soon! (well, four weeks-ish) I still don't know what I'd like, probably a bit of cash money/dvds/clothes but I don't know. Then again I've seen loads of Polaroid 1000's on ebay and I really want one! Thing is, I know it won't take long to save up for the camera because the ones I've seen are going for like £10, but I think the film you have to use costs a bomb, dang it. Maybe I'll ask for film.

(I think this is some sort of advertisement for one but otherwise source unknown.)

Now about Miranda. I knew what it was and how everyone talked about it at school saying how funny it was, but before last night I'd never actually watched a single episode - to which everyone usually screams "YOU'VE NEVER WATCHED IT?!?!?!" so loudly I just end up cowering in the corner and hiding from the world. It's not that I didn't like Miranda Hart - I saw her in Call The Midwife and thought she was great, but I just don't watch much tv other than when films are on I guess.

(Miranda in Call The Midwife)

I stayed at Rachel's last night and at about 1am she asked me if I wanted to watch it, and at first I was a bit like 'hmm' because I'd never seen it before. But we put it on anyway and wow, have I missed out!!!! It's so darn tootin' funny. And you can watch the episodes over and over again and still laugh. The thing is, Miranda's character reminds me of myself so so much, how clumsy she is and how socially awkward she is just fits me to a T. She always falls over boxes/coat hangers which makes me laugh far more than it should. And she is accidentally half naked a few times as well because her trousers fall down in a club and there's another time when she gets stuck in a park gate and thinks that by taking her clothes off she'll be able to fit through the gap.

We ended up getting through the entire series 1 and 2.

A few things I found from tumblr:

Her accident in the club.

And I love Stevie (what have you done today to make ya feel prouououd)

Perhaps I'm overrating it a tiny bit because I literally laugh at anything and everything (gets me into so much trouble) but I still think it's genius! A new obsession, no doubt.

The only bad thing about Rachel's is that she has a cat, a really cute one called the Russian word for 'little boots' which I won't even try to spell. I'm allergic to 'em, which is the saddest thing ever because I love cats... ;-;

I also found you a video (well just the song) to one of my favourite songs ever by Oingo Boingo, Danny Elfman's band, Only A Lad. It's great and bouncy and happy and I like it.

Danny's style is fantastic, you can really tell it's his arrangement just by the rhythms, and wow that bridge near the end!! I love him.

I still have a cat-caused headache now so I'll go, thanks a bunch for reading if you are!